Today we made our books! It took ages but the finished product is so cool! The process:
- Fold each section in half.
- Make 2 slits an inch from the edges and then place the tags evenly between these making 4 more slits.
- Sew these together with the thread doubled up, making kettle knots after the 3rd section. Sew around the tags to keep the edge straight.
- Place in a vice and fill the cracks in the edge using PVA.
- Add two more layers of glue and then stick some binding fabric over them. Cover with more glue and then cut the tags to the size of the fabric.
- Cut out two doubled up rectangles out of paper, stick to front and back of book.
- Trim edges of book.
- Cut out two rectangles of grey board 3mm bigger than book on each side.
- Get cover fabric and draw out rectangles and spine onto it before gluing board down and folding into the correct shape. Cut the corners of the fabric at a 45 degree angle.
- Stick the coloured paper to the cover starting with the front and then moving the book so that you can stick down the back cover. DONE (as Gordon Ramsey says).
I chose purple for my front cover and burgundy for the colour paper insert. Heres how it turned out:
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